International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | September 2018 | Vol 5 | Issue 9 Page 3753 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Irianti EC et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2018 Sep;5(9):3753-3759 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Pulmonary Community Health Centre Makassar Elva Cristy Irianti 1 *, Arsunan A. A. 1 , M. Tahir Abdullah 2 INTRODUCTION Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable and treatable disease characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and air flow restriction. The cause is a respiratory or alveolar airway that is usually caused by exposure to dangerous particles or gases. The typical chronic airflow limitations in COPD are caused by a mixture of small airway disease (obstructive bronchiolitis) and parenchymal destruction (emphysema), the relative contribution varies from person to person. 1 The Global Burden of Disease Study reports the prevalence of COPD cases of 251 million globally by 2016. Estimates globally by 2015 have 3.17 million deaths worldwide and are caused by COPD of 5% of all deaths worldwide. Over 90% of COPD deaths occur in low and middle income countries. 2 COPD globally was the fourth leading cause of death (5.1%) in 2004 and is projected to occupy the third position (8.6%) by 2030. COPD is also a major cause of chronic morbidity at rank 11 in 2002 and is projected to rise to seventh position by 2030. 3 COPD is one of the major non-communicable diseases, which is less known to the general public due to the lack of information related to the disease. United States data in 2007 showed ABSTRACT Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes damage to lung conditions such as dyspnea that affects to social and psychological life of the sufferer which overall affects the quality of life. This reaserch aims to focuses on factors related to the quality of life patients with COPD at the Pulmonary Community Health Center, Makassar. Methods: This study used cross sectional study design. Population in this research were patients with COPD who undergo treatment period of October-December 2017 that was as much as 381. Sampling was done by consecutive sampling with total sampel 160 responden. Data analysis consisted of univariate, bivariate with chi square test and multivariate analysis with logistic regression. Results: The results showed that some respondents had poor quality of life (63.8%) and other respondents had a good quality of life (36.3%). Factors related to quality of life were the severity of COPD (p=0.028), comorbidity (p=0.001) and quality of sleep (p=0.005). A multivariate analysis showed that patients with comorbidity were at risk 2,716 times to have poor quality of life. Conclusions: The severity of COPD, comorbidity and quality of sleep were related to have poor quality of life. Patients with COPD should early diagnosis of severity and should change their lifestyle better so as not to aggravate the quality of life. Keywords: COPD, Quality of life, Comorbidity, Severity of COPD, Quality of sleep 1 Department of Epidemiology, 2 Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia Received: 24 July 2018 Accepted: 11 August 2018 *Correspondence: Dr. Elva Cristy Irianti, E-mail: Iriantielva@gmail.com Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20183456